Developing an interactive web interface for a ptychographic imaging application

Ptychography is a high-resolution imaging technique widely used at the Diamond Light Source for research in fields such as Biology, Chemistry, Material Science and many more. It relies on iterative phase retrieval algorithms which are implemented in the GPU-accelerated reconstruction software package PtyPy. However, this software tool is command-line based and requires user interaction with long and complicated configuration files.

The aim of this project is to transform this command-line tool into a modern web application. This requires the development of a web server (e.g. using flask) running ptychographic reconstructions with PtyPy on resources provided by a containerised platform such as Kubernetes. Furthermore, this also includes the design of an interactive cross-platform UI/UX (e.g. using Vue.js) providing a simple interface that will make ptychographic imaging at Diamond more accessible to the non-specialist.